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Want to see U2 play at your local stadium this fall? How much are you willing to pay?
The concert business is booming, with top tours grossing more each year. But as the economy constricts, consumer frustration is beginning to reverberate throughout the industry. Fans complain that the once simple process of getting tickets has been [...]

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In a case of piracy that some analysts called unprecedented, untold thousands of people watched a version of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” online Wednesday, a full month before its scheduled theater release.
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The premiere of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” starring Hugh Jackman, is set for May СЕКРЕТУТКА, but many people watched [...]

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MILWAUKEE — In the last couple of years, the television industry has made a big push onto the Web, giving viewers hope that they might one day reach nirvana: every show ever made, available online for immediate free viewing.
Skip to next paragraphRelatedTV Decoder: In Milwaukee, HBO on the Laptop, Only for Subscribers (March [...]

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IMAGINE that a company set up a mall store where, instead of selling trinkets, it sold information about customer behavior. For a few cents, it could tell a saleswoman at Nordstrom that the person who was about to walk in had already stopped at Steve Madden and was looking for red shoes.
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Americans yearn to be young. So it is little wonder that RealAge, which promises to help shave years off your age, has become one of the most popular tests on the Internet.
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A test is aimed at gauging a person’s “biological age.”

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a regular [...]

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People who go online to donate to charity for the first time often do not return to the Internet to make later gifts, according to a new study examining the experience of 24 nonprofit groups.
The findings suggest that while the Internet can be a valuable fund-raising tool for charities, particularly in soliciting gifts after disasters [...]

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“Cybersquatting,” the practice of maliciously snapping up a Web site with someone else’s trademark in its domain name, is illegal in the United States. It is also an easy way to make money; a cybersquatter can impersonate the trademark’s owner, sell ad space to the victim’s competitors, or extort a payment in return for [...]

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BEIJING — Since its first unheralded appearance in January on a Chinese Web page, the grass-mud horse has become nothing less than a phenomenon.
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Songs about a mythical alpaca-like creature have taken hold online in China.
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The Internet has made it easy for a lot of young writers to make money by making enemies. Defamer, Dlisted.com and PerezHilton.com lambaste Hollywood; and Jossip and Gawker make fun of New York media.
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Movieline the magazine is scheduled to be resurrected as a Web site.
Whenever it is [...]

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A new interactive online tool can help older Americans assess their risk for developing colon cancer. The catch is that it only works for whites.
That’s too bad, since blacks are at higher risk than whites for colorectal cancer, developing it and dying of it at higher rates, and recent reports suggest the racial gap [...]

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